Riel*’s provisional government with a stable authority acceptable in central Canada. Wolseley immediately tried to find some involvement. When he learned that Donald Alexander

 John A. Macdonald*] was largely restricted to expressions of courage

. Macdonald*], while opposing efforts to alter the form of the local legislatures and insisting that the provinces should have the sole right to levy duties on their natural resources. He was also concerned

SMITH, DONALD ALEXANDER, 1st Baron STRATHCONA and MOUNT ROYAL, HBC officer, businessman, politician, diplomat, and philanthropist

. Macdonald*, and enjoyed cordial business relations with George Stephen*, who would become the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway

. Macdonald*, who wanted a dependable Tory organ in Toronto to combat Brown’s Globe. The Conservative party had begun providing support to the Telegraph in 1869 at the behest of Cook and

returned to spend his final years in Ottawa, a city that was also the home of one of his daughters, the wife of Donald Alexander

owner and president, taking as partners John Dillon, Thomas Bingham Hall, Donald William Ross, and William Ross. For several years he had lobbied the government to encourage domestic milling by dropping

 1917. Donald Macleod

Charlottetown and Royalty. He would be reelected at every election until he resigned from politics in 1893. McLeod held his portfolio only until March 1880, when he was replaced by Donald

and bishop; b. 15 July 1840 in Allisary, P.E.I., son of John Macdonald and Ellen Macdonald; d. 1 Dec. 1912 in Charlottetown

MACDONALD, Sir WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER (until 1898 he spelled his family name

MACDONALD, Sir DONALD ALEXANDER, militia and army officer; b

federal election in the summer of 1872 did not, however, measure up to the hopes of the youthful members. Sir John A. Macdonald

. Macdonald* and the Conservatives, who came to power in 1878, he believed that the British North America Act was superior to the American constitution because it provided for a stronger federal authority

graduation, Laird returned to Charlottetown in 1859 to found, edit, and publish the Protestant and Evangelical Witness. Renamed the Patriot in 1865, with Donald

, Donald Alexander Smith undertook to purchase control of Globe Printing, apparently to silence the daily’s

future. In 1869 Hill had met HBC officer Donald Alexander

travelled to the Rockies and British Columbia again, to establish a usable pass through the Selkirks. The following year Fleming and Donald Alexander